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Sunday, June 25, 2017

Weekend Writing Warriors June 25, 2017

Hello
fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)! The last wewriwa post of June! Time is truly flying by.

It's time for snips and bits of amazing tales by talented
writers! Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week,
participants sign up HERE
at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or
unpublished, on their own blog to go live by before 9:00 AM Sunday,
EST. (We check signups to remove links when we don't find a wewriwa
post--to save our participants from clicking on empty links--so please
have it live by 9:00 Sunday morning--eastern USA). Then we visit each
other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a
solitary writer's heart good.
Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants
do both, can be found HERE This
week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor".
Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand--he's a different kind of alien.
They've left the section of the ship where he and his Chays (monks) are
quartered. It's the first time she's left that deck since Lord Sand
rescued her from the slave fight ring in the belly of the
ship.
The
last
line last week was spoken by Theusand: "As
I said, they are good people. They are—."

Here we go...

“What
are they?” she spat, giving him a dose of being cut off mid-sentence.

“If
you would let me finish.”

“I
don’t want to hear what they do or what they’re like. I am asking what they
are, like I am a human and you’re a Dhor...so…what are they?”

She'd expected him to be angry at the way she'd intentionally disrespected him, but he sounded oddly detached when he said, “I
understand your question now. They are Shalks from the world of Shalkey, in
the same space-time neighborhood as TeBrig.”

“Right. So,
tell me--in case I missed it--why do I care about these people? About any of
this?”

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